Here, There, or Somewhere Else

Festival 2025

Multiple origins

Pay What You CanShort Form

Curatorial idea by
Chia-Chieh Liu, Xinyi Wang

Running time
73 mins

Pay What You CanShort Form

We all carry our own histories, cultures, languages, and desires – but also those of others. How do we situate ourselves when we belong neither here nor there? From Vietnam to Germany, Tokyo to London, migration is a journey of both preservation and loss, complicated by queerness. Across nebulous landscapes of gender identity and family ties, this programme explores the tensions of navigating multiple cultural terrains, and the cracks in between.

Curatorial idea by Chia-Chieh Liu and Xinyi Wang, as part of Up Next: Future Film Curators Lab 2024/25

Tickets

10 May 2025, 2:00 PM

Tickets available

ESEA Community Centre

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